[birdky] Re: migrating fish?

Could these be what my parents (long, long ago) called "skipjacks"?  We fished 
the Ohio a lot when I was a kid, below the dam at Louisville. No, no one knew 
about the fossil beds then, but that is exactly where we fished, putting in on 
the Indiana side below the dam and motoring to one of the sluices where we 
would "anchor" the boat and my father and I would actually walk over to the 
wickets (then wooden, slipping on the moss all the way) and seine for minnows 
to use as bait. Too bony to eat, so we threw them back.

I found this in a Google search, and although pertaining to Tennessee, this 
MIGHT be what you are talking about.   
http://www.tnwildside.org/stories.asp?Story=286   Follow link to site below

 http://www.seeinstripes.com/skipjack.htm

And   from http://www.flyfishohio.com/mckinley_shad.htm   The skipjack is 
abundant on the Ohio River.  It migrates up the larger tributaries, but seldom 
roams very far from the powerful, clear waters of the main river.  As a sport 
fish, skipjack have a long history.  Dr. James Henshall, Cincinnati icon and 
author of the Book of the Black Bass, wrote about this fine fish as early as 
1888.  Milton Trautman wrote in The Fishes of Ohio; "The species was 
universally known as the 'skipjack' because of its frequent leapings into the 
air to capture the jumping minnows.  It readily took natural and artificial 
baits, leaping spectacularly in the air and dashing about with great speed when 
hooked.  When taken with the aid of a fly rod and light tackle it ranked among 
the finest of Ohio game fishes."

Millie Farmer (sort of got carried away here, reminiscing)
St. Matthews, KY
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  Subject: [birdky] migrating fish?


  yesterday while sitting in a park by the river at West Point, KY I saw and 
heard waves going up the river.  After seeing  an occasional white splash I 
realized it was probably fish.  Several hundred must have gone by then a second 
group went by.  A man drove up who said they might be "skull" catfish...Does 
anyone know about fish and their habits?  Celia Lawrence, Louisville 





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